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Dr. Joseph Contessa on Yale Cancer Answers.

On October 30, 2024, members of the Center for Breast Cancer in Guilford presented in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

On October 28, 2024, members of our Center for Breast Cancer at Smilow in Waterford and Westerly shared information on breast cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment, and surgical care and reconstruction, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) and Hartford HealthCare (HHC) broke ground on the CT Proton Center in Wallingford in October 2024. The center, approved by the state in April 2022, is expected to begin offering proton beam therapy to cancer patients in December 2026.

Empowered through Knowledge, Smilow at Trumbull.

Modifi Biosciences, a Yale University spinout company formed in 2021, has developed a novel class of small molecules that target cancer cells lacking expression of a key DNA repair protein called O6-methylguanine methyl transferase (MGMT).

Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital people who have been honored

Timothy Robinson, MD, PhD, of Yale School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center discusses how radiation may play a role as bridging therapy to CAR T-cell therapy for patients with relapsed/refractory DLBCL.

Each year, millions of women over 40 get breast screenings, and then they wait for their results. It is a nerve-wracking process knowing a doctor is determining if there are any signs of breast cancer. So, how does artificial intelligence play into this? WTNH asked Dr. Kiran Sheikh, a radiologist at Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital.